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- a celebrated Greek tragic actor, Gell. 7, 5, 2.
(Πῶλος).
1. A sophist and rhetorician a native of Agrigentum. He was a disciple of Gorgias (or, according to other authorities, of Licymnius, Schol. ad Plat. Phacdr. p. 812), and wrote a work on rhetoric, called by Suidas Τέχνη, as also a genealogy of the Greeks and barbarians who were engaged in the Trojan war, with an account of their several fites; a catalogue of the ships, and a work Περὶ Λέξεων. He is introduced by Plato as an interlocutor in the Gorgias. (Suidas, s.v. Philostr. Vit. Sophist. 1.13, with the note of Olearius ; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. ii. p. 801.)
2. A Pythagorean, a native of Lucania. A fragment from a work by him on Justice is preserved by Stobaeus. (Serm. 9.)
3. A celebrated tiagic actor, the son of Charicles of Sunium, and a disciple of Archias of Thurii. It is related of him that at the age of 70, shortly before his death, he acted in eight tragedies on four successive days. (Plut. Dem. p. 859, An seni ger. sit Resp. 3. p. 785b; Lucian. Necyom. vol. i. p. 479, ed. Hemst.) [C.P.M]
(Πῶλος). (1) A rhetorician of Agrigentum, introduced by Plato as a speaker in the Gorgias.
(2) A Greek tragic actor of much repute. He is said to have acted in eight tragedies on four successive days when seventy years of age (Plut. Dem. 28).
- Paus. 8.31.7
- plain of: Paus. 8.35.10
- Paus. 9.20.3